ASCII Problem

[koalalorenzo]

I noticed that when I create a new update using these codes:

[Other code]
facebook_profile = Profiles(api=api).filter(_id="50a29021d932############")[0]
fb_media = None
if main_picture:
    fb_media = {
        "picture": main_picture,
        "thumbnail": main_thumbnail
    }
facebook_profile.updates.new(smart_str(fb_text), media=fb_media)

I Got this exception:

File "/Users/koalalorenzo/Documents/Dropbox/Progetti/Reali Network/reali-bufferizer/src/buffer-python/buffpy/managers/updates.py", line 110, in new
     post_data += "profile_ids[]=%s&" % self.profile_id
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 59: ordinal not in range(128)

So I checked if the profile_id is not ASCII but it is. So I tried to use django smart_str to fix it but it does not work. My text is imported from XML using UTF-8 and converted to ASCII using this line:

 descrizione = descrizione.decode(xml_obj.encoding).encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')

What is my mistake? Is the profile_id not ascii? Is that ID the ID I gave( _id="50a29021d932############" ) ? The string is ASCII!

[vtemian]

Hey,

Well, obvious an input is not ASCII when it been passed to facebook_profile.updates.new(smart_str(fb_text), media=fb_media)
Can you check fb_text to be ASCII by print "%s" % descrizione?

Anyway, we should fix this in order to support unicode, because facebook and twitter supports unicode and if we convert unicode to ascii, we will remove all special characters, which sucks big time.

[koalalorenzo]

Yes descrizione was not ASCII code. The strange fact is that i made it ASCII using the "decode" and "encode". so I don't know why it was not working. Anyway I hope everything will be updated to unicode ASAP 👍

Thx!